Max Kepler has been suspended for 80 games after the veteran outfielder tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug Epitrenbolone, Major League Baseball announced on Friday. (The Athletic) 20 years ago, this story would’ve eclipsed the NFL Playoffs. 2026, an MLB player gets caught with cattle feed in his blood and you’re more likely to see […]
So far in this life, I’ve been blessed with never having to “batten down the hatches.” Never have I ever had to fight for my life, against the eye of death, with comrades to my left and right, all trying to survive another sunrise. The Los Angeles Dodgers have run their organization in constant emergency […]
Welcome to the Deadseriousness 2025-26 MLB offseason HQ, your home for all MLB offseason content, trade grades, ceiling/floor blogs and everything in between, head here for all MLB offseason updates. Baltimore Orioles sign 1B Pete Alonso to 5-year, $155 million deal By Signing 1B Pete Alonso, The Baltimore Orioles Add The Greatest Home Run […]
In 2023, the Baltimore Orioles won 101 games (their first time winning 100+ games since 1980), then lost in the ALDS to the Texas Rangers. In 2024, the Baltimore Orioles won 91 games and then lost in the Wild Card Series to the Kansas City Royals. Last season, the Baltimore Orioles finished 75-87—last place in […]
Welcome to Ceiling/Floor, where we break down a team’s transaction based on the best case scenario and the worst case scenario. Today, we’ve got Dylan Cease joining the AL Pennant winners. BREAKING: The New York Post has learned Dylan Cease to Blue Jays. $210M, 7 years — Jon Heyman (@jonheyman.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 6:19 […]
The return of Donald Trump. Is racism back? Israel letting the choppa go blocka blocka on the Middle East. An economy devastated by random tariffs, price gauges and an AI bubble that cannot wait to pop. Mass layoffs. Gutting of the healthcare system and all social safety nets. Masked unhireables snatching tias from the local […]
Full trade, per ESPN sources: Boston Red Sox receive: Sonny Gray and cash St. Louis Cardinals receive: LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 25, 2025 Red Sox receive: RHP Sonny Gray Cardinals receive LHP Brandon Clarke and RHP Richard Fitts Boston Red Sox Grade: A+ Boston […]
BREAKING: The New York Mets and Texas Rangers are finalizing a trade that would send second baseman Marcus Semien to the Mets and outfielder Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers, sources tell ESPN — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 23, 2025 New York Mets receive: 2B Marcus Semien (due $72 million over the next three) Texas Rangers […]
How many times in Major League Baseball have we seen a team make a run to the Championship Series, or even win a World Series, and, mid-celebration, cut salaries, trade stars, let free agents walk—owners opening up their empty wallets with flies buzzing out—despite making millions from the aforementioned playoff run? First baseman Josh Naylor […]
The days of big-name free agents automatically leaving their cities and showing up in the Bronx the following year are done. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the new home for superstars. MLB GMs need not even call an agent with a Japanese country code at the beginning of their phone numbers. Dodgers bound. The New […]
Nick Kurtz is your 2025 American League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year! pic.twitter.com/vzz0uIaidS — MLB (@MLB) November 11, 2025 Nick Kurtz was drafted 4th overall, last year. The 4th player selected in the 2024 MLB Draft is the 2025 MLB Rookie of the Year. Back in my day, a first baseman had to travel […]
This is a special peek of the Deadseriousness newsletter Let’s Get This Dread, in which I, Lester Lee, weigh in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The Toronto Blue Jays own a 3-2 lead in the World Series, Los Angeles Dodgers one game away from a brutal […]
Lounging, sunny Monday, no clouds, birds chirping, vape fumes attacking future me; Sunday’s disappointments escape me. The New York Giants committed 5 consecutive turnovers, losing to a New Orleans Saints team with an equal chance of winning the Super Bowl as you and I. The New York Yankees—game two of the ALDS in Toronto—clobbered by […]
24-year-old me; every thought consumed with seeing that hot red head again. 1am. L train. On the way to sin for a quick grin. Could not imagine having the weight and history of the New York Yankees on my shoulders. Phone battery clinging to 8%. I’m 10 stops away, praying she’s not snoring. Why isn’t […]
It’s 9/11 in New York. 24 years ago, Osama ruined a ton of people’s lives and sent Americans into an impossible-to-win war in the Middle East. Our current president—has taken that baton from Bin Laden and made it his mission to ruin as many lives as possible—one sexual assault at a time. Donald Trump visits […]
You know, in the superhero movies when the good guys finally get into the villain’s secret lair—expecting a one-v-one fight with him—only to be surprised by a reveal of a huge weapon? Like in The Batman when he catches The Riddler and then, surprise—The Riddler blows up a dam and floods Gotham—or surprise—the president is […]
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